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FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS., ASSIGNOR TO THR AMERI- CANBUTTON FASTENRR COMPANY, or NRW BRITAIN, CONN.

BUTTON-SETTING'INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,546, dated June8,1886.

Application filed October 30. 1885. Serial No. 181.382. (No model.)

' a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the countyHampden, State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in Button-Setting Instruments, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to hand-instruments for attaching buttons tofabric or other goods by means of malleable-pointed fasteners, theobject being to provide such an instrument having a button-fastenermagazine, from which the fasteners are automatically fed to the driverone at a time as required for use.

To this end the invention consists inthe combinations hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a top view of an instrument embodying my invention. Fig. 2is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the frontend, which is at the left hand in the preceding figures. Fig. 4 is asection in line a c, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section in line b b, Fig. 2.Fig. 6 is a vertical longitudinal section through the entire instrument.Fig. 7 is a sideview of the front end of the instrument, showing thefirst Stage of the setting operation. Fig. Sis a similar view showingthe second stage of said operation. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of theplunger. Fig. 10 is a perspective View of a part of the button-fastenermagazine. Fig. 11 is a similar view of the driver.

Similar characters designate like parts in all the figures.

My improved button -setting instrument comprises three principal parts-acentral part or frame containing the magazine, and two members pivotedto said frame and provided with handles whereby they are operated.

The frame is designated by F, the upper member by A, and the lower oneby B. Said frame is suitably formed to receive two pivotscrews, 2 and 3,on which the two Said members, respectively, have their bearings.

The magazine is a T-shaped groove, G,-

formed in the frame, and it opens at the front end into the verticaldriver-channel 4, Fig. 6, in front of which the frame has a dependingguide, 7, for supporting in place the driver D. This has one or morerack-teeth, 8, meshing with gear-teeth 9, formed ou lower member, B. Astout spring, 10, serves to throw down said member and the driver untilthis is stopped by hook l1, with its point 22just below groove G. Asimilar but much lighter spring, 12, acts to throw up the upper member,A. This member carries at its front end the ordinary setting-die, E,whose concave depression, 16, stands,when the die is down, asin Figs. 7and 8, directly Over driver-channel 4.

The magazine-groove is supplied with the button-fasteners through anopening, 15, Figs. 5 and 6, the instrument being inverted for thepurpose. A sliding follower, N, pushes the fasteners along in saidgroove. Said follower is vthrown forward by a spring, S, containedwithin a tubular extension or case, M, eX- tending rearward from frameF. This case has a slot, 13, and a common lantern-catch, 17, for thepassage and locking of the followerhandle J. The follower being drawnback ventirely within the round bore or case M, it

may be turned in that bore to bring handle J into engagement with catch17, when groove G may be filled by putting into it by hand a fewfasteners at a time. The groove being sufficiently supplied, thefollower is unlocked and the spring pushes it forward against thefasteners, and the foremost one of these into the driver-channel, abovedriver D, ready to be set into a fabric or shoe-upper.

'The operation of the instrument will be readily understood from thedrawings and preceding description, being as follows: The magazine beingproperly loaded, and the instrument as in Fig. 2, the handles 5 and 6 ofmembers A B are grasped by the operator, who then places under thesetting-die a piece or fabric, 20, or other goods to which a button isto be attached. On now closing together the handles the member A-spring12 being weaker than spring 10-is closed down onto the fabric, as inFig. 7. A button, 7, is next placed, as usual, with its shank under thesetting-die., ready for setting. Next the handles are further closed,forcing up member B, as in Fig. 8, the driver D forcing the foremostfastener, 18, Fig. 6, up through channel 4, through the fabric and thebutton-shank, into depres- IOC sion 16, which turns the fastener overinto a hook that inoloses said shank. This complctes the settingoperation, after which the said members are allowed to resume their rstpositions, and follower N forces another fastener into channel 4.

The general arrangement and operation of the magazine anddriver-channel, the settingdie, and driver are substantially the sameherein as in United States Patent No. 310,541, granted to me January 6,1885, to which reference may be had for a more detailed account ofthefastening made by means of the instrument.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. The combination, in abutton-setting instrument, of a frame having a magazine and adriverchaunel, substantially as described, driver D, member A, carryingthe settingdie and having a handle, and member B, operating said driver,and also having a handle, subsubstantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a button-setting in strument, of a frame havingthe T-shaped groove G and the tubular extension M, provided with slot 13and a catch, 17, follower N, having handle J, adapted to fit into saidcatch, and spring S, all arranged to operate substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, in ahand button-setting instrument, of the member A,frame F, having the channel 4, and the guide 7 provided with stop 11,driver D, member B, pivoted to frame Fand operating said driver, andmeans, substantially as described, for operating said member, allsubstantially as shown and de scribed.

FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

XVitnesses:

WILBUR M. STONE, Guo. A. REYNOLDS.

